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In Reply to: RE: Two subs makes it kind of tricky. posted by geoffkait on May 18, 2022 at 05:32:58
Geoff is right. I've got my Quads at 6 feet center to center of tweet panels and it's just right. Image is beyond borders of speakers and it's quite difficult to point to anything except the location of instruments. Giant headphones. Thanks for mentioning this Geoff
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Geoff recommends speaker placement 4 -5 feet apart. But, like you, I ended up choosing on 6 feet apart (center to center).5 feet (wall to speaker front) from the wall behind them in my 11' X 18' room has also proved optimal, in my room and with my speakers (with a sitting distance 10 - 11 feet away from the speaker fronts).
4 - 5 feet apart has never produced the biggest soundstage in my room - no matter how I adjust speaker toe-in or distance from the wall behind.
Putting the speakers closer than 6 feet apart solidifies the central "phantom image" a bit more, but it also shrinks my soundstage somewhat.
Optimal speaker placement is too speaker-dependent and/or room-dependent to make generalizations about, I think.
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But I was making generalizations AND I was also saying one MUST use a speaker set up track in order to get the correct result. What I probably should have said is what the guy on the XLO TEST CD said which is START at about 4 feet between speakers and gradually move them apart. Trying to get the right placement without a foolproof method, i.e., TEST CD - you can only find local maximum locations, but not the real maximum locations. People toe in too much and separate the speakers too much, generally. It's not a question of feet it's a question of centimeters. Trying to find the best locations by moving speakers a foot at a time hascabout as much chance of success as a camel has of passing through the eye of a needle.I should warn you the set-up track requires that the room be treated *sufficiently well* to be able to "hear the sound coming from all around you, with no particular direction." This is not easy, trust me. It's certainly not something you can achieve in a day or two. When the system can do that with out of phase signal it will have best sound,most focus and biggest soundstage when signal is in phase. Most rooms are hideously out of whack acoustically, it would take a long time just to get them squared away enough to be able to utilize the speaker setup track. How do I know this, you ask. Because I'm from the future.
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he's from the future
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